Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Why China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy is an important strategy in China-EU relations" video.

  1. The CCP knows that EU is a confederation, not a nation state. It is actually a collection of ancient states that warred nearly constantly with each other over a millennia, until recently. The EU is a confederation where these states have loose political agreements and more binding economic ones, and each state is a democracy (Turkey would like to join the EU, but it's not a democracy). China despises and underestimates the EU, because of the CCP's revanchist position that a few countries in Europe had colonial empires until the recent past and these empires exploited China, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth century which is partially true. What the CCP underestimates is Europe is the ancient centre of the Western world and largely of Western culture (Marxism was a counter-enlightenment philosophy that created the CCP; culturally the CCP is German), and that some of the best science in the world is still carried out in some countries in Europe. Also, the CCP tendancy to agglomerate facts is blindsided by the many poor rural people it has neglected, while in Europe the average person is freer and considerably better off than the average Chinese, regardless of the EU member country. I think Chancellor Scholz's visit to China was a mistake and he was pushed there by his own big business lobby. At any rate, people who understand Chinese realized the humiliating degree of lowly standing that the Chancellor was subjected to in his recent visit to Beijing. Germans as a whole are a cultured and well educated people, and they won't forget that humiliation in a hurry.
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